Word: offered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are nineteen or twenty prove less flexible under the developing influences that college is supposed to direct upon them: Many feeling that they should "get out in the world", grow impatient and either try to hurry through their course in three years, or devote themselves to studies which offer practical training instead of "deepening and enlarging the outlook on life", which must be, after all, the real aim of such an education as Harvard offers. Furthermore the report declares that "Statistics. . . showed conclusively that the younger students were better in scholarship and conduct than the older ones...
...ordinary ability." This would mean, correspondingly, that a fairly large number endowed with more than that ordinary ability, would be entering each year at sixteen and fifteen, while several (the present fifteen-year-olds) would come at fourteen or under. Unfortunately, the examinations test only mental development; they offer no estimate of character or physique, and it is already plain to be seen that the first often grows far faster than the other two. And the report which he quotes, also, refers only to scholarship plus a negative quality called "conduct", which probably means that younger students are more docile...
...developing a graduate school of creative art, which will include painting and sculpture, and associating this with the Architectural School and that of Landscape Architecture, it is hoped to build up in Cambridge a center of artistic study and practice. Such a group would offer a great opportunity for expert training, and "friendly competition" with Technology and the art schools of Boston would become an American counterpart of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In working towards such a goal Dean Edgell and his associates are materially contributing to the expansion of Harvard as a true university...
...attitude of England, the German cabinet has thus far been able to keep up a boldly obstinate front. It evades the hope, possibly, that Doomsday will soon arrive. When France threatened to occupy the Ruhr, it seemed that their hope would be granted, but England withdrew its offer to cancel the French war debt, and France withdrew its threat...
...Richard Sears '91 has offered these prizes for the past two years and intends to offer them yearly, through 1925. Competition is open only to undergraduates in the College, Contestants will prepare their discussions for presentation at a date to be announced in March or April, 1923. The candidates will be allowed 30 minutes and may present their subject either by reading a paper or by speaking with or without notes. A list of references will be posted on Library Bulletin Board of the Graduate School of Education, and the contestants will be allowed access to this library in preparation...